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...Harvard believe that the nation's biggest medical problem,* decaying teeth, could be overcome if students were set to research on the cause of dental disease. At present, they claim, most of the 70,000 practicing U.S. dentists are too busy filling, polishing and pulling, to give any heed to research. Nor do they know a great deal about the tooth as an organ of the body...
...long ago as last April, OPM had told radio manufacturers, with no trimmings, to count on little or no magnesium, aluminum, other scarce materials. Their own leaders said the same, warned them to "get out and dig" for defense business to survive (TIME, June 23). The radiomakers paid good heed. Already they are about 25% engaged in defense work (ammunition and machine-gun parts, wartime radio devices, including the "walky-talky," a two-way battery set for field...
...Army failed to heed the lessons of World War I, had no adequate plans for camps. Result: of $828,000,000 spent on 229 troop-housing projects, at least $100,000,000 was wasted. Said Senator Truman in an oral aside: "We used that $100,000,000 figure because the Army admitted that much. It will run two and a half times that much, easily...
...audience-the Foreign Policy Association and worldwide radio listeners-gave attentive heed. For his speech was the best statement yet made, in other than Rooseveltian idiom, of the official...
Because thousands of them went south this year, Florida was having a good season last week. Press agents, nightclub men, the managers of the black-tie hotels paid them very little heed. These gentry were largely occupied in bemoaning or explaining the "bad" season. By all the travel indexes (airlines, railways, busses, boats), more people went to Florida this year than ever. But less big money went there, or at any rate was spent there. That portion of Miami, Miami Beach and kindred spots which was built for and catered to the big-money trade found itself overbuilt (Miami Beach...